Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilsonis an American businessman, venture capitalist and blogger. Wilson is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures, a New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Zynga, Kickstarter, and 10gen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth20 August 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.
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Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.
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I don't like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that's happening, stuff that's going to happen, and the people who are going to make it happen.
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Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.
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People already love to play casual games. But when you take a casual game and stick it inside a social network, it becomes way more exciting.
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I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.
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Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.
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Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.
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It's not a correction ? it's a crash.
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I'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months.
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Businesses are a legacy we can pass on to our sons and daughters. We need our own businesses to have more of a say-so in our communities.
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All of us in the venture capital area are going through a triage, where we have to decide which portfolio companies are so wounded we will never save them, ... As horrible as it is to go through that process, it's a cleansing process. To have some branches grow and bear fruit, you have to trim others.